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Cylance

Cybersecurity · Irvine, United States · Founded 2012

Develops antivirus programs and other kinds of computer software that prevent, rather than reactively detect, viruses and malware

Valuation $1–2.5B
Revenue $100–500M
Headcount 100–500
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Power Law Unicorn$1–10B valuation tier Thoroughbred$100M+ revenue

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Cylance's talent

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Startup mafia 12 alumni-founded startups
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Investors

14 investors on Cylance's cap table

Sourced from Dealroom's funding history. Investor profile links are shown where available.

Series A 3 investors entered at this stage
Fairhaven Capital Partners
Alex Doll
Khosla Ventures
Series B+ 11 investors entered at this stage
Blackstone
Thomvest Ventures
DNX Ventures
Insight Partners
KKR
DFJ Growth
Dell
Blackstone Tactical Opportunities
Capital One Ventures
Dell Technologies Capital
TenEleven Ventures

Cylance mafia

Startups founded by Cylance alumni

Former Cylance employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.

HalcyonEst. 2021
Ryan SmithUnited States
Signal score94
Reach SecurityEst. 2020
CBColt BlackmoreUnited States
Signal score92
JetStream SecurityEst. 2025
Raj RajamaniUnited States
Signal score90
Obsidian SecurityEst. 2017
Glenn ChisholmUnited States
Signal score88
222Est. 2022
KKKeyan KUnited States
Signal score88
Ghost SecurityEst. 2022
Eric CorneliusUnited States
Signal score85
NetRiseEst. 2020
Thomas PaceUnited States
Signal score85
HiddenLayerEst. 2022
Tanner BurnsUnited States
Signal score75
SynqlyEst. 2023
Joel BaumanUnited States
Signal score66
BINARLYEst. 2021
Alex Matrosov.United States
Signal score66
BoldendEst. 2017
BRBraden RussellUnited States
Signal score61
CyvatarEst. 2019
Corey WhiteUnited States
Signal score60

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Global footprint

Where Cylance has talent and traffic

Workforce by country
6 countries with
team presence
🇺🇸 United States89.5%
🇮🇪 Ireland2%
🇧🇷 Brazil1.7%
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates1.7%
🇯🇵 Japan1.7%
Top 5 of 6 shown
Web traffic by country
43K monthly visits
across markets
🇺🇸 United States64.4%
🇯🇵 Japan27.2%
🇨🇳 China7.2%
🇨🇱 Chile0.9%
🇦🇷 Argentina0.7%
Top 5 markets shown

Patent intelligence

$42M patent portfolio · 79 active families

Estimated portfolio value
$42M
3.0% of valuation · 2.2× smaller than top peer CrowdStrike ($95M)
79 active patent families
Where Cylance innovates AlgorithmComputer engineeringComputer programData miningLearning models

Where Cylance concentrates vs peers

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Market sentiment

What the market is saying about Cylance

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